Rolling Stone (7/11-25/96, p.89) - 4 Stars (out of 5) - "...When Jimmie Dale Gilmore turns his love light on, we all shine on."Option (9-10/96, pp.108-109) - "...producer T-Bone Burnett has opened things up and created a much more expansive sound, so much so that you can almost see the wide-open landscapes that inspire Gilmore's crooning..."Musician (8/96, p.86) - "...his singular ability to invest his lonesome prairie sound with a sort of spiritual grace--it's been dubbed, with semi-accuracy, `Zen Country'--is undiminished here. The slow shuffle and lush, Mideast-tinged instrumentation of...`Where Is Love' conjures the ambience of a Jim Jarmusch film..."